Episodes
Do You Actually Have a Capacity Problem?
Most organizations think they have a capacity problem. They usually don't. What they have is a work-in-progress problem. And those two things call for very different solutions. In this episode, Peter Maddison and Dave Sharrock dig into one of the most persistent headaches in organizational managemen...
Context Engineering and the Roles AI Is Rewriting
AI is changing how products get built. That part isn't news. But it's also changing who needs to do what - and that's a conversation most organizations haven't had yet. In this episode, Peter and Dave dig into one of the more interesting tensions emerging in 2026: as coding agents take on more of th...
AI Won't Fix a Structural Problem with AJ Bubb
A lot of organizations are betting that AI will make their teams faster. Some of them are right. Most are solving the wrong problem. AJ Bubb, founder of MxP Studio and host of Facing Disruption, joins Peter and Dave to talk about what actually happens when AI lands in a development team without fixi...
Project vs. Product: Finding the Operating Model That Actually Fits
Most organizations are running some version of a project operating model or a product operating model - or, more honestly, an uncomfortable mix of both. In this episode, Peter Maddison and Dave Sharrock get into what actually separates these two approaches, where the tensions show up, and why copyin...
Who Decides? Sorting Out Product Managers, Project Managers, and Product Owners
Product manager. Product owner. Project manager. Three roles that often exist in the same organization, sometimes in the same meeting, and frequently stepping on each other's toes. In this episode, Dave and Peter break down what actually separates these roles, why the confusion happens, and what it ...
AI Agent Governance in Production with Logan Kelly
Most organizations are somewhere between experimenting with AI agents and quietly hoping nothing breaks in production. Logan Kelly, CEO of Waxle AI, has spent a lot of time in that gap, and he thinks governance is the piece most teams are walking past too quickly. In this episode, Logan joins Peter ...
AI in the Real World, Not the Demo
Most conversations about AI focus on what it can do in a controlled setting. This one doesn't. Callum Sharrock spends his days deploying AI systems in real environments, watching them succeed and fail in ways no simulation predicted, and reporting what he finds. His conclusion? The trend line is ste...
Two Speeds, One Organization
Something is shifting inside organizations right now, and it's creating a split that's hard to ignore. AI is compressing the time it takes to generate, validate, and prototype ideas. Some people inside your org are moving at a completely different speed than the systems built to support them. Peter ...
AI and Automation with David Kilzer
A few times in tech, two streams collide, and everything changes. David Kilzer has spent 50 years putting automation to work in manufacturing and distribution around the world, and he thinks we're at one of those moments right now. The convergence of AI and humanoid robotics, in his view, is the big...